The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-08-24
Weekly News Summary.
Vermont

ernor Proctor at Rutland for a few days.
Mrs. SYLVIA GIBBS of Barnard celebrated
her one hundredth birthday August 18th.
THE Crosby Opera-house, Brattleboro, is
being transformed into Masonic lodge
room.
THE Vermont state fair expects to secure
Hon. George b. Loring as the orator of the
occasion.
Hon. DANIEL ROBERTS of Burlington had
his pocket-book stolen at Bennington, with
over fifty dollars in money.
REV. ANGUS A. Robertson of Vergennes
has accepted call to the Willoughby ave-
nue. church, Brooklyn, N. Y.
GENERAL CIRCUIT will deliver the address
at the Orleans county veterans reunion at
Barton, September 18th and 18th.
THE acting postmaster-general has APP
pointed l.. NJ. Rice postmaster at Ascutney-
vile and William e. Fairbanks at East
Burke.
AN engine and three or four cars loaded
with swine were dumped near East Georgia
Monday night, delaying several passenger
trains from two to seven hours.
REV. CHARLES G. KIMBALL, DID,, of Ben
nington has accepted the position of SUI
perintendent of the home of DIR. Tourjee's
Conservatory of Music in Boston.
EXCHANGE block in Rutland was greatly
damaged by fire Friday, the value of what is
left being placed at low figure. The fire
is thought to be of incendiary origin
DANIEL SULLIVAN of Rutland has brought
suit against the Central Vermont Railroad
Company for injuries sustained in coupling
cars while in their employ. The damages
are placed at 5000.
THE mail-train bound for Bellows Falls
ran a race with calf and afforded much
entertainment to the passengers. The ami
NAL ran over two miles before he was
driven from the track.
LUCIUs STRONG, who was injured few
weeks since in the paper-mills at Bellows
Falls by a falling elevator, died from the
effects of his injuries last week. He was
forty-seven years of age and leaves widow.
FRANK TowNE of Woodford attempted to
commit suicide Friday by cutting his throat
with piece OF glass. The wound bled until
Towne fell, from weakness, into pile of
sawdust, which staunched the blood, and
he will recover.
SENATOR MORRILL, returned home with
his son from Washington in a special car
August Is. The sons health is much i'm
proved and the senator's is good notwith-
standing the severe ordeal through which
both have passed.
A. T. WOODWARD, a Rutland policeman
and former tax-collector, has sued that
town for 50 900, which he claims is due him
from the highway tax. About $500 was
paid into the town treasury depriving
woodward OF MS lees.
CUSTOMS officials have been through the
northeastern part of Vermont and seized
about twenty horses, the owners of which
have their option to pay duties or lose their
animals. In some cases the parties have
owned the horses two years.
A TowN-MEETING was held in Windsor
last week and it was voted TO exempt from
taxation for five years any person who
would start manufacturing business in the
htIl Il tad l,r. ft..
erected at the upper mill power in that
town.
l.. d. HAZEN of st. Johnsbury will send
to the state fair at Burlington ten yokes of
oxen, the best lot he ever exhibited. The
heaviest pair will weigh fully 5000 pounds
and the entire ten Jokes will probably aver
age about 400. Mr.. Hazen now has one
hundred oxen.
The Central Vermont railroad has Just
closed a contract with the Vermont Con-
structon Company of st. Adams, through
Manager Aver, to build another iron bridge
across the Winooski, between Williston and
Richmond at a cost of S37 800. The bridge
is to be six hundred feet long and to be
completed in December.
ISAAC WELLS, "a lad fifteen years old, son
of one of the boatmen at Camp Watson, was
found last week Wednesday hanging from
butternut tree near the highway. He had
been missing two weeks. The theory is
that he was playing at hanging" as he
had been previously known to do, and this
time he was unable to eXtricate himself.
THE following patents have been granted
to Vermonters: Erasmus A. Pond and e.
M. Pond, Rutland, device for fastening lids
of vessels George ID. Spooner Rutland
muzzle for animals; Curtis Gates, Lyndon,
hay tedder; George e. Burton, New Fps
witch, n. H., and c. II. Magoon, st. Johns
bury said Magoon assignor to said Burton,
railway signal.
A LARGER number of orders than usual
have made a new building at the Fairbanks
scale-works in st. Johnsbury necessity
This is being rapidly erected and will in
crease the floor capacity 10000 square feet
and large amount of new machinery will
be added. The company was about 5000
orders ahead the first of this month"; and are
shipping about three carloads of goods
day.
ASA L. BARRON, whose death was no.
ticed last week, spent his life in the hotel
business, being member of the firm of Bar
ron, Merrill Il Barron, proprietors of the
Crawford, Fabyan, Twin Mountain, Mt
Pleasant and Summit Houses. He began
business at White River junction and at one
time the firm paid one-seventh of the taxes
of the town of Hartford; afterward his bust
ness spread to the White Mountains, and he
was one of the best known men in the
region. He had done great many generous
the poor people of Hartford forty-eight bar
rels of flour, costing Sl3 each. He leaves to
large family an estate estimated at $780,
600. He was buried last week Thursday at
his birthplace in Cluechee.
THE widow of the late Daniel ID. Wood
ward of Waterbury, who was killed in the
Hartford railroad disaster last February,
has brought suit against the Central Yer
mont Railroad Company for $4,000, and the
sheriff recently served the papers on the
company. This is the third suit brought
against the company for death claims on ac-
count of the Hartford accident, the others
being for $4,000 and 5000 and are brought
by Canada parties. 1t is understood that
the defense of the company will be mainly
that they are not responsible, as the cause
of the accident was beyond human control.
They will also depend greatly on the
scientific statement of Professor Fletcher of
Dartmouth College, who examined the
broken rail and testified at the hearing, and
on the fact that the state railroad commits
sioners eXonerated them from all blame in
the matter.
AT the late term of the supreme court for
Lamoille county only six cases were heard.
That of the town of Cambridge rs. State of
Vermont was "A petition for state aid to
assist in building a bridge at Cambridge
Junction. The petition was denied in
county court and judgment was sustained
in the supreme court, In Henry Nye rs.
Burlington * Lamoille Railroad a motion of
abatement was made by the defendant on
the efficiency of the service. The motion
was oveTruled in county court and sus-
tanned in the supreme court, In A. & j. T..
Stevens rs FullinetOn, trustee and claim